Business analysis services

Software development starts with a business requirement. The fidelity of that requirement will determine the quality of the software delivered. It’s critical for business to produce high quality requirements focused on the areas that bring the most business value. Herding Coders can assist your company shape the direction of your development efforts with the following services:

Requirements elicitation and documentation

Requirements are the cornerstone of great software development. Herding Coders can assist your team in gathering and documenting requirements in a number of formats depending on the application. No matter whether the work in question is for a minor system change or a larger piece of work documenting a full system development Herding Coders can assist you business in capturing requirements using agile tools and techniques. User stories, user story mapping and traditional requirements specifications are some of the techniques Herding Coders have experience in delivering.

Development specifications

Not all requirements are ready for developers to start working on. Where required we can work with your own development team or you’re vendors to ensure our requirement specifications contain enough technical details for developers to code against. For more detail see our Solution Design services.

Workshop facilitation

Workshops are a great way to gather insight from subject matter experts quickly. We can assist in facilitation of various types of workshops to help achieve your business goals.

User engagement

We can assist in engaging your user base to help direct your development efforts. This engagement can take the form of eliciting information: user interviews, user surveys and workshops or distributing information: user communications, product showcases and product roadmaps preparation.

Requirement prioritisation

Once all requirements have been gathered it is important to work through this backlog and sort this in priority order. We can assist in facilitating this prioritisation process providing a framework and expertise to prioritise the longest list of requirements.

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